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Baked Apple Pie Fries
Baked Apple Pie Fries with Salted Caramel Dipping Sauce. Your favourite apple pie….as fries!! These are a great finger food dessert for casual entertaining. Using my tip to freeze the pastry after sandwiching it with the Apple Pie Filling, cutting them into perfect strips with plenty of filling in each piece is a breeze (otherwise…
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Peanut Sauce for Stir Fries
This is such a good, easy Peanut Sauce for stir fries and noodles. Anything you make with it is so tasty! Use with stir fry ingredients of choice using my “formula” – chicken, beef, prawns/shrimp, tofu or vegetarian. I’m a big fan of peanut sauces, so there’s a few to choose from here! If you’re…
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Fries seasoning
This is a simple French fries seasoning mix to add extra flavour to plain hot chips. Try it on homemade French fries, or store bought frozen fries. Also terrific on wedges or roast potatoes! Ingredients Instructions Recipe Notes: 1. Salt type – I like using table salt as the grains are finer than cooking salt/kosher salt so…
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Perfect Crispy French fries
Finally, here it is – The perfect French fries recipe! Based on a ground-breaking method from the legendary Kenji López-Alt’s The Food Lab, these hot chips are so crispy they stay that way even after they’ve gone cold. It’s rare to find fries this good even at up-market bistros! Ingredients SEASONING (CHOOSE): Instructions FRY #1 FRY…
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Chicken Pakora
Marinated chicken pieces, dipped in a spicy batter and deep fried to an appealing gold perfection. Dunk them in ketchup, yogurt dip or mint chutney to Savour the meaty crispiness. Ingredients of Chicken Pakora For the marinade: How to Make Chicken Pakora Step 1 Marinate the chicken with ginger-garlic paste. Step 2 Add the remaining…
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Palak Pakoda
Palak pakoda, these crispy spinach fritters are perfect afternoon snack to serve with a cup of tea/coffee in the rainy weather or winter season. The process of making pakoda at home is very easy and requires a few basic ingredients like palak(spinach) and gram flour(besan). Just mix chopped spinach, gram flour, onion, red chilli powder…
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Vegetable Pakora
Vegetable Pakora, the flavorful deep fried crispy fritters made using mixed vegetables, gram flour and spices is a popular snack cum starter from India. These pakoras are the perfect way to use leftover vegetables in the refrigerator. The making process is very simple and the time requires in only chopping the veggies and deep frying…
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Crispy Vegetable Pakoras
These vegetable pakoras are delicious. You’ll love this recipe if you’ve ever had Japanese tempura-coated veggies. These pakoras are similar, but the spiced batter gives them a unique taste. Serve with chili sauce, mint yogurt sauce, or sweet and sour sauce. Try this recipe with other vegetables, such as sweet potatoes, broccoli, and asparagus. Ingredients…
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Pakora (Indian Vegetable Fritters)
This is street food, the Indian way! Sold as snacks on the streets of India and as popular appetisers in Indian restaurants elsewhere, pakora are crispy, bite-size vegetable fritters. They’re loaded with gorgeous Indian spices before being fried until crunchy. Ingredients FOR COOKING: CORIANDER MINT SAUCE FOR PAKORAS (OPTION 1): MINTED YOGURT SAUCE (OPTION 2):…
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Onion Pakora
INGREDIENTS INSTRUCTIONS Step 1 Cut the red onions into thin slices and add into a bowl. Step 2 Add the spices to the onions and mix until evenly incorporated. Step 3 Add the gram flour and the rice flour then mix until well combined. Step 4 Gradually add the water and mix until well combined…
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